Hello Skip,
Again, I can't thank you enough for your participation in the Finishing Talk Community Forums.
When I create a post (like this one) - here is what I do to get it right. First I draft the post here in the "write message" dialogue box. Then I cut the text and paste it into word for spell check and final edit (and removing all of my double spacing between sentences). Next I past it in a basic text pad document. Finally I cut/copy it from the text pad back into the "write message" box.
After I click submit I review it to make sure I didn't miss anything, and if I did I quickly do an edit (again usually taking out all of my double spaces), and resubmit it. It didn't used to be this cumbersome, but the site is continually evolving, and sometimes during this evolution you can hit a few speed bumps - this formatting issue is a good example of that. We will have this worked out soon.
Please make no mistake, even though there are only 6-10 posts in any given week, we also average 12-15 new registered "members" each week, and the site is visited by nearly 7000 unique IP's (much more accurate number of site visitors than "hits" that other sites talk about) each month. Even though many are not posting, many are certainly reading.
So all in all, this forum even with the new quirks and bugs - is holding its own. I assure you that at this pace the net effect of your posts for 2010 alone will be that you will end up reaching out and touching through sharing your experience (in a word "collaborating"), and in turn helping thousands of fellow surface finishing professionals around the world..... and this will continue to build on itself exponentially as long as the site stays online -which I hope will be forever. You really are making a difference for our industry, and for that I applaud you!
I know I'm repeating myself, but we really do hope to have these new bugs worked out of the software in a few months. It is a much more extensive issue than you would ever imagine. So please be patient with us, and keep on collaborating, and I promise that I’ll keep working hard at making sure your posts and formatted properly. And that goes for anyone else out there in our community of thousands who are kind enough to create a posting.
Sincerely,
Paul Fisher
Finishing Talk.com
PS: I thought the E-Coat Line Sketch was awesome! Maybe the scan could be a little clearer, but when I edited it I linked a smaller pic in the posting to a nice large image - After I copied/pasted it to a blank publisher page (should work this way in Word too) it printed perfectly. Click here to check it out.